This is a recording from Appian Publications & Recordings Ltd (to quote the full title)—the label invariably more familiarly known simply as "APR".

Since its foundation in 1986, APR has won an enviable reputation as a quality label devoted predominantly—though not exclusively—to historic piano recordings. In particular APR has won countless laurels for the high standard of its 78rpm restoration work—"Transfers of genius" to quote one critic—as well as the detail and content of its booklets.

This album devoted to Myra Hess’s live performances feature two complete recitals recorded at Illinois University on 17 and 18 March 1949 (though sadly it proved impossible to locate a copy of the Beethoven ‘Tempest’ Sonata which was not shorn of the final three bars of the central Adagio or the opening phrase of the finale). As an appendix we include some off-air recordings taken from the Ford Sunday Evening Hour broadcast of 7 March 1937. Significantly, almost all the works included in this programme are further additions to the Myra Hess discography.